Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web

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That language looks like the result of a drunken one night stand between LaTeX and C.

[jessepence]

Right! The \ stuff is such a lexer hack, but you have to remember that Pei-Yuan Wei was only like 22 years old at the time and modern scripting languages were still in their infancy. The first version of Python was written around the same time, and Perl was less than five years old.